Jazz Trumpeter Don Sickler Will Hit the High Notes
At Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus, October 5

Brooklyn, N.Y. — Known widely in a variety of jazz roles – as performer (trumpet/flugelhorn), arranger, transcriber, producer, conductor, publisher and educator – Don Sickler will perform and instruct students at Long Island University’s Brooklyn Campus.

Currently writing and playing in the Curtis Fuller Sextet and the Ben Riley Septet, Sickler will appear on Tuesday, October 5 at 4 p.m. in the Spike Lee Screening Room, LLC 122, as part of the Music Department’s Jazz Clinic and Concert Series. The event is free and open to the public.

Sickler gained recognition as a performer, arranger and transcriber with Philly Joe Jones in the late ’70s. His playing and arranging gigs have included the big bands of Art Blakey and Clifford Jordan and many smaller groups, including Monk All-Star Tentet, Birdology, Monk On Monk, T.S. Monk Sextet, Billy Higgins Sextet and Harold Land/Billy Higgins quintet.

Deeply involved with the music of Thelonious Monk since Monk's death in 1982, Sickler has been the artistic director for the Thelonious Monk International Jazz Competition, and is co-editor of the Thelonious Monk Fakebook (with Steve Cardenas), published in 2002.

 For more information, call Professor Bob Aquino at (718) 488-1668.

In addition to a B.A. in Music, the Music Department offers a B.F.A. degree in Jazz Studies and a B.S. in Music Education in Urban Schools. Students may study privately with professionals off-campus for credit. The program can be tailored to suit students’ needs with either a minor or double major in other fields.

Long Island University opened its Brooklyn Campus in 1926, welcoming a diverse population at a time when other major universities enforced quota systems against racial and ethnic minorities. Some 31,000 students currently are enrolled at the university’s three residential and three regional campuses, including more than 12,000 at the Brooklyn Campus. Located at the corner of Flatbush Avenue Extension and DeKalb Avenue in Downtown Brooklyn, the Campus is accessible to all major bus and subway routes and the Long Island Rail Road.